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En passant

noun
1.
(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed.





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"En passant" Quotes from Famous Books



... Princess, in her pendant curls of grey hair, in the manner in which she had, at our first introduction, called me plain "Nicolas" and "he," in the occupations of the ladies (the reading and the sewing of garments), and in the unusual whiteness of their hands. Those hands, en passant, showed a family feature common to all—namely, the feature that the flesh of the palm on the outer side was rosy in colour, and divided by a sharp, straight line from the pure whiteness of the upper portion of the hand. Still ...
— Youth • Leo Tolstoy


Words linked to "En passant" :   chess game, chess, capture


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